Did you go out in bars when you were a witness?
Care to share a few stories....
Night Life as a Witness?
by JH 5 Replies latest jw friends
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Rainmakerone
we occasionally went to bars but mainly we drank heavily at home or out camping.....in australia u can buy booze at 18 so we started out pretty young and drank as much as we could afford. when i moved to bethel (age 19) i started REAL drinking.... drinking with older guys in bethel and going to massive parties of JWs on the up market north shore of sydney.... i have photos of some real drunken sessions in bethel too .... after i left bethel i moved to a wine growing region in NSW and most of the young JWs there would go on huge winery days drinking themselves to oblivion ........ and then try and pull up sober for the WT study on sunday lol
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JH
I became a witness in my late 20's, so I was used to going out in bars every week end. Didn't change much when I became a dub. I figured that there's an age for everything, and It was the thing to do then.
I never went out in bars with witnesses though. I didn't want to see a witness in any bar where I went.
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Insomniac
About 6 years ago, I spent a very strange summer, going to a lot of bars with my friends from work. This had never been my habit before, but I sure made up for lost time that year (1998). We went to little hole-in-the-wall dive bars, and dance clubs, sports bars, and even a gay bar where one of my buddies worked part-time. We saw a really great drag show there and none of the guys hit on me! I even worked in one of these places for a few months.
It felt so comfortable (at first) to be in bars, because I KNEW I would not run into any Witnesses, I could just be myself for a few hours. Not that I was bad; I danced with some cute guys, but never drank anything but soda, and at the end of the evening I was the one who gave all my friends and anyone else in need a ride home.
Before long, I started noticing the Witnesses in the crowd. Once in a while, I'd see one, usually a brother. When they would see me, they would always duck their heads, and we would each pretend not to have noticed the other. Then we would pretend it didn't happen when we saw each other at the meeting the next morning. What a stupid, fearful way to live my life! Now, I go over and give them a big hello, like normal folks do. It feels a lot better being honest about what is, really, a little pleasant diversion.
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Dan-O
Insomniac, there are three religious truths:
1. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith.
3. Witnesses do not recognize each other in nightclubs.
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Gadget
We used to go partying all the time, its a big thing over here. We used tyo have huge huge partys in a hired nightclub that people would travel hundreds of mile to get to, thats the witness raves you always used to hear about....... Everytime I go out on the town now I bump into a lot of witnesses in the pubs and clubs, including a large group in a nightclu just before midnight last new years eve, and most of them came over to say hi that night even though they know I'm df'd and an apostate.